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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: we may stand excused, one and all, in weighing well what he hath proposed, and reaping some benefit from such discourse. Without referring, therefore, to the authority from which it came, remember that Saul (wicked prince as he was) did prophecy truly of things to come, and that honey before now hath been plucked from the lion's mouth. Please to withdraw, then, and I shall make it my prayer?as it is my lively hope?that this strange and sorrowful exhibition may lead you to a genuine sense of your errors, and, ere the close, to a blessed amendment of your lives. VISION THE THIRD. OF THE LAST JUDGMENT. Homer, we find, represents Jupiter as the author or inspirer of dreams, more especially the dreams of princes and governors, granting always that the subject of them be of a religious and important character. It is stated, moreover, as the opinion of the learned Propertius, that good dreams are sent from above, have their meaning, and ought not to be slighted. To give frankly my own idea upon this subject, I am inclined to his way of thinking, in particular as to the case of a certain dream I had the other night. As I was reading a sermon concerning the end of the world, it happened that I fell asleep over it, and pursuing the same line of thought, dreamed the following dream of the Last Judgment ?a thing rarely admitted into the house of a poet, so much as in a dream. I was in this way reminded too of an observation in Claudian, that all creatures dream at night of what they have heard and seen in the day; as the hound, says Petronius Arbiter, dreams of hunting the hare. Well, methought I heheld a noble-looking youth towering in the air, and drawing loud and solemn tones from a mighty trumpet. The vehemence of his breath did certainly detract somewhat from the...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217106573 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217106579 |
| Weight | 0.56 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.38 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 166 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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